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A. P ELISSE.

MACHINERY POR'PBLTING HAT BODIES.

No. 253,420. Patented Feb. 7,1882.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTE PELIssE, E NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN T. WARING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MACHINERY FOR FELTING HAT-BODIES.

SPECIFIGATTON forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,420, dated February 7, 1882.

Application filed April 6, 1881. (No modeL) their axes parallel, or nearly so, and between which a roll of hat-bodies or other articles or material to be felted is placed and subjected to a rolling operation.

The invention consists in the combination, with a roller for a feltingmachine having grooves in its periphery, of lags pivoted in said grooves and adapted to move inward and outward therein. The adjacent ends of said lags are preferably matched together, so that they will move inward and outward together, and

springs are preferably employed to force them outward.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of a felting-machine roller constructed according to my invention, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same in the line a m, Fig. 1.

A is the body of the roller, having in its periphery the longitudinal grooves a a, containing the movable lags B B. Two lags are represented in each groove, each lag being about half the length of the groove, and each being pivoted at about the middle of its length within the groove. The grooves are so deep that the lags may swing inward and outward therein on their pivots b b. The adjacent ends of the pair of lags B B in each groove are notched inward and outward together. Springs d d are applied within the grooves a 06, under and behind the ends of the lags, for the purpose of pressing them outward. The pivoting of the lags to the rollers is represented as effected by fitting their pivots b b into small foot-pieces or cleats c e, which are inserted into the grooves a a. When these rollers are in operation the springs allow the lags to yield to the thicker portions of the roll of hat-bodies or other articles or material undergoing the felting operation between the rollers. These thicker por tions will generally be near the middle of the length of the rollers, where the ends of the lags meet, and will pressinward the adjacent ends of each of thetwo lags in one groove, as shown in dotted outline at the top of Fig. 1, and so cause the outer ends of the lags to be pressed outward against the thinner portions of the end of the roll. The profile formed by the outer edges of the two lags will then be concave. The lags thus conforming to the longitudinal form of the roll will felt all portions uniformly.

All of the rollers in a felting-machine may be grooved and furnished with movable lags, as described; or one or more may be of that construction and the other or others eitherhave fixed lags or be without lags.

VVhatl claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with afelting-roller having grooves in its periphery, of lags pivoted within the said grooves, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, with the grooved roller A, of the pairs of pivoted lags B B, matched at their adjacent ends, and the springs d (1, sub stantially as herein described.

A. PELISSE.

Witnesses:

A. O. SEELEY, A. SAUER. 

